December 9, 2010

Fabric design: Chair covers

One of my customers needed her pair of Biedermeier chairs re-upholstered. We chose unfinished cotton canvas as fabric for the chair seats which were covered by a professional upholsterer. I then decorated the fabric with a pattern and colours complementing the warm wood tone of the chairs, without being too conventional. The pattern was applied with soft stamps.

 Cotton canvas, Setacolor fabric paint. 2010.

Painting: Watercolour

At the moment I'm taking classes in watercolour painting and I read a lot of tutorials about different techniques. Painting the negative space around a shape instead of the shape itself appeals to me, so I did this exercise, inspired by a book by Linda Kemp.

Bog Forest
SAA watercolours, 
Winsor & Newton Cotman NOT paper, 190 gsm. 2010.

December 6, 2010

Recycled furniture: Chair

Francesca, the wife of a gallery owner in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, once gave me a set of four chairs which needed to be stripped and refinished. I painted one of them for display purposes, in glossy black with a bright pattern. It is called Francesca's Chair, of course.

Wood, acrylic paint, acrylic varnish. 2000.